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Costa Rica offers a wide range of adventures for travelers. Two of the most popular are touring the chocolate trees, and wandering through the rain-forest canopy. High-flying fun and delectable chocolate make a wonderful combination.

Crocodile Bay Tours

Crocodile Bay Adventure Tours offers a sweet trip through the Finca Kobo Chocolate Farm. Tourists will wander through the fruiting trees and encounter the local wildlife, which includes everything from toucans to white-faced capuchin monkeys. The tour ends with fresh fruit from the farm, baked plantains and, of course, pure chocolate sauce in which to dip everything. The Miramar Canopy Zip-Line Tour is a 17-acre track that offers an ocean view as you glide effortlessly through the treetops. Platforms are strung at around 138 feet. This tour can be done during the day or at night. Each of the platforms is lit, guiding your way. Located in the northwest area of Costa Rica, both of these tours are listed as half-day tours and run from three to four hours.

Crocodile Bay Tours (USA Office)

1250 North McDowell

Petaluma, CA 94954

800-733-1115

crocodilebay.com

Costa Rican Trails

The Pinilla Canopy Tour offered by Costa Rican Trails offers a visit to a tropical dry forest. Visitors will fly through the air at heights up to 75 feet along cables 120 to 600 feet in length. The forest surrounding you is populated with reptiles, colorful birds and monkeys. The tour takes two hours and runs along 10 platforms along the western coast of Costa Rica. From Pinilla, guests travel by bus to the Kobo Farm Chocolate Tour. Using organic fertilizers and pest control, the farm produces chocolate, fruits and vegetables.

Costa Rican Trails

P.O. Box 2907-1000

San Jose, Costa Rica

888-803-3344

costaricantrails.com

Tierras Enamoradas

Tierras Enamoradas (Lands in Love) is an animal-friendly resort that bills itself as an eco-friendly, vegetarian escape. With its own adventure center, Lands in Love provides tours through the Omega Canopy, the longest canopy system in Costa Rica. During the tour, travelers will soar high above the ground across many different zip lines. The tour takes place in central Costa Rica, running across 15 platforms in about three hours. Guests take the chocolate tour at the Trimbina Rain Forest Center. This two- to three-hour tour takes visitors through chocolate, fruit and vegetable fields in an estate adjoining the local volcano.

Lands in Love Hotel and Resort

408-215-1000 (international reservations)

landsinlove.com

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